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Curious about AI? Find out how you can get started today! We’ll walk through several tools that are open source and commonly used in data science. I’ll also provide information about the algorithms being used and we’ll walk through a few different use-cases so you’ll better understand them.
DevOpsDays Raleigh

The DevOps movement has been bringing Just Culture into the tech industry. It’s time to learn what it is and how you can harness it to make your teams happier. We’ll discuss some of the research from Sidney Dekker and the DevOps movement, and I’ll share some of the methods I’ve used during cultural transformations.
DevOpsDays Raleigh

Risk quantification can be a valuable tool for selling transformation to executives. It’s also important to understand how your company looks at risk. Most CEOs will have a certain amount of risk they’re willing to take called their risk tolerance. This will help you to understand if your project is worth pursuing. If your project won’t offset more risk than the risk tolerance, then it’s unlikely to be funded if it’s not a new feature or product.
DevOpsDays Dallas

Curious about AI? Find out how you can get started today! We’ll walk through several tools that are open source and commonly used in data science. I’ll also provide information about the algorithms being used and we’ll walk through a few different use-cases so you’ll better understand them.
Refactr Tech

The DevOps movement has been bringing Just Culture into the tech industry. It’s time to learn what it is and how you can harness it to make your teams happier. We’ll discuss some of the research from Sidney Dekker and the DevOps movement, and I’ll share some of the methods I’ve used during cultural transformations. Long Just Culture stands to benefit the tech industry and all industries greatly. It started in aviation and health care, but John Allspaw brought it into the tech field through DevOps. It has actually become one of the three pillars of DevOps according to Gene Kim and John Willis. I have been studying this field for years, and we’ll discuss some of the original research as well as some of the latest related to DevOps. Then we’ll discuss some of the methods I’ve used in transformations that have included culture. In fact, all transformations are underpinned by culture, and that is something I always focus on first.
DevOpsDays Kiev

A quick take on some of the basics of monitoring that many companies forget. We'll briefly introduce monitoring, and then we'll cover some tips about how I think monitoring should be done.
DevOpsDays Kiev

In this session, we’ll walk through the five steps to transformational change that I’ve found to be important. These are really applicable to any continuously improving organization or any large amount of change in a system. Establish the vision; Create shared experiences; Educate, educate, educate; Find evangelists; Get feedback. I’ll elaborate on each item with methods I’ve used in real transformations at multiple companies. I’ll also describe how these all tie into the devops culture, which is really the transformation that’s occurring within the company.
Open Source Data Centre Conference

A quick take on some of the basics of monitoring that many companies forget. We'll briefly introduce monitoring, and then we'll cover some tips about how I think monitoring should be done.
Open Source Data Centre Conference

The DevOps movement has been bringing Just Culture into the tech industry. It’s time to learn what it is and how you can harness it to make your teams happier. We’ll discuss some of the research from Sidney Dekker and the DevOps movement, and I’ll share some of the methods I’ve used during cultural transformations.
DevOpsDays Austin

We didn't know we were a technology company. We didn't know we were a data company. We were a command and control driven company with our board changing annually. This talk is about how we are transforming into a company of federated decision making and continuous delivery of customer value.
DevOps Enterprise Summit